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The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries-An Update

International Monetary Fund - 2009

Low-income countries are being hit hard by the global financial crisis. They are facing a sharp contraction in export growth, FDI inflows, and remittances, and lower-than-committed aid. But a marked recovery is in prospect for 2010 helped by rising world demand and supported by short-term...

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Macroeconomic Developments and Prospects For Low-Income Countries-2024

International Monetary Fund - 2024

The outlook for Low-Income Countries (LICs) is gradually improving, but they face persistent macroeconomic vulnerabilities, including liquidity challenges due to high debt service. There is significant heterogeneity among LICs: the poorest and most fragile countries have faced deep scarring from...

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Macroeconomic Developments and Prospects in Low-Income Developing Countries-2019

International Monetary Fund - 2019

This paper is the fifth in a series that examines macroeconomic developments and prospects in low-income developing countries (LIDCs). LIDCs are a group of 59 IMF member countries primarily defined by income per capita below a threshold level. LIDCs contain one fifth of the world's...

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Fund Concessional Financial Support For Low-Income Countries-Responding To The Pandemic

International Monetary Fund - 2021

This paper proposes a package of policy reforms and a funding strategy to ensure that the Fund has the capacity to respond flexibly to LICs' needs during the pandemic and recovery. The key policy reforms proposed include: -- raising the normal annual/cumulative limits on access to PRGT resources...

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Food prices, nutrition, and the millenium development goals

2012

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Global Monitoring Report : Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper reviews economic developments in Barbados during the 1990s. Economic activity declined during 1990-92 but began to recover in 1993. The recovery started slowly in 1993, but picked up in 1994, and real GDP grew by 3.8 percent in that year. Adverse weather in 1994 led to a drop in sugar...

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Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global food inflation has significant short-run effects that build over time. Inflation...

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Gender Budgeting in G7 Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2017

At the request of the Italian Presidency of the G7, the IMF has prepared a paper on gender-budgeting as a contribution … to the G7 initiative on equality. The paper provides an overview of gender-responsive budgeting concepts and practices in … the G7 countries. It summarizes recent trends in gender equality in G7 and advanced countries, noting that while equality …

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Djibouti; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

The modern economy of the Republic of Djibouti is based on rents directly or indirectly originating from the international port of Djibouti and from the countryâ€™s strategic position. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses that the growth recorded over the last five years is...

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Kingdom of Lesotho; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, Prioritization, and Cost Matrix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for the Kingdom of Lesotho presents a determined plan in pursuance of high and sustainable equity-based economic growth. It contains medium-term objectives and strategies to address the major challenges facing the country. These challenges include employment...

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